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 SNAGneXt Early Bird Rates
End Today
Don't miss it! Early bird rates for SNAGneXt registration end today!
Hotels rooms are also going fast, the Trunk Show artist tables are filling up, and you can now sign up for the Portfolio Review. Register today!
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 SNAG Welcomes Emma Zanetti
SNAG is excited to announce Emma Zanetti as our new Communications and Marketing Coordinator. In this newly developed position, Emma will oversee SNAG's advertising, press releases, Springboard listings, social media initiatives, promotion of the organization's development efforts, and the Communications and Marketing Committee. Read more.
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 SNAG Links Preview
As we prepare for our Auction of Masterful Links during SNAGneXt, here's a sneak peek at another of the 2016 links:
Footsteps by Jennifer Jordan Park
Enamel, CZs, silver and gold
This link represents the journey taken to connect with others and our inner selves. The gold foil represents footsteps over the surface of darkness, while the enamels vary from opaque, translucent, and transparent, illustrating that the journey is not always clear. Jennifer Jordan Park received her M.A. in Studio Art from New Jersey City and has been honored in the Saul Bell Design Awards, Niche Awards and MJSA Vision Awards, among others. |
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Educational Endowment Scholarships Deadline This Week
SNAG annually awards three student scholarships and three emerging/mid-career artist scholarships. The jurors for 2016 are Merry Beck, Don Friedlich, and Lauren Markley. Deadline: March 17, 2016
Learn more and apply now
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SNAG 2016 Perks Logo Design Contest
SNAG is again holding an open design contest for a fun, new logo that will become the featured design for all our 2016 fundraising perks. Deadline: March 25, 2016. Get more details
 
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IMAGINE PEACE NOW!
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Disabled guns in Boris Bally's studio, ready to ship to accepted participants.
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The Innovative Merger of Art & Guns to Inspire New Expressions, or IMAGINE PEACE NOW Exhibition, is a call to arms, hearts and hands intended especially for contemporary metal artists. Included work will respond to, and initiate conversations regarding, the gun violence so prevalent in American culture today. The project is soliciting proposals for art via an open call for proposals from the greater metals community. Invited and accepted entrants will be shipped dismantled weapons to transform into (un)loaded objects of art. Find all the details on Boris Bally's website. Deadline: April 15, 2016.
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 Vivian Beer Wins "Design Challenge"
Vivian Beer, who will be featured in our next issue of Metalsmith magazine, took the title last week on HGTV's show "Ellen's Design Challenge."
Beer is a furniture designer and business owner in Manchester, NH. Check out her designs, created alongside HGTV and DIY Network carpenter Matt Blashaw.
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SNAG Springboard
These are just a few of the opportunities on Springboard.
Find and post opportunities today!
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Join SNAG's Finance Committee
Are you a CPA? Have accounting skills, perhaps? Maybe your partner, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, parent, friend has these skills? SNAG is currently seeking an additional member for our finance committee with these qualifications (current SNAG membership is not required). Analyzing data and working as a team reviewing financials and budgets will be part of your role on the committee. If you are able to assist, please respond to treasurer@snagmetalsmith.org
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From the SNAG Maker Profiles
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SNAG
541-345-5689
info@snagmetalsmith.org www.snagmetalsmith.org
The Society of North American Goldsmiths advances jewelry and metalsmithing by inspiring creativity, encouraging education, and fostering community. SNAG envisions a diverse jewelry and metals community engaging in thoughtful conversation and critical discourse while preserving tradition and embracing innovation.
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Already registered for SNAGneXt? Help others attend the conference by making a donation
to the Conference Student Scholarship fund or Conference Work Exchange fund. You can add it to
your registration. Go now!
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The Sixth Annual Initiatives in Art and Culture Gold Conference, is April 28-29 in New York, NY. Check your email for a registration discount offer for SNAG members.
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Alchemist Picnic III is May 6-8 at Touchstone in Farmington, PA. Hosted by Wayne Werner. Networking, discussions, guild presentations, demos and lectures.
There are a limited number of work study spots and comps for jewelry teachers and guild presidents.
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Join the ZOOM Symposium in Milwaukee, May 25-29, as they host 250 makers, writers and innovators. Celebrate craft, culture, innovation and making.
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ABANA's 2016 conference is July 13-16 in Salt Lake City. Registration is taking place now. It only happens every two years and you won't want to miss this one!
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Victoria Patti talks to blacksmiths around the world on BlacksmithHER Radio. Shows are presented by podcast once a week.
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